Losing sucks. Losing to teams that are deliberately punting the year away adds an extra degree of exasperation to the situation. The Baltimore Orioles, deep in the midst of a long rebuild, took two out of three games from the Yankees in the opening series of the season. No team, let alone a World Series aspirant, wants to drop the first matchup of the year — especially at home.
Throughout the series, the Yankees went 6-for-29 with runners in scoring position. That brought the team’s famous struggles with the bases loaded in 2018 back into the forefront.